Project Coordinator

Position Details

• Work Location: Metro Hall, 55 John St
• Job Type & Duration: Temporary (24 months) vacancies
• Posting Period: 27-Aug-2026 to 04-Sept-2026
• Shift Information: Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week
• Affiliation: Non-Union
• Number of Positions Open: 5
• Department: Corporate Real Estate Management

Job Summary

As a Project Coordinator – PMO, reporting to the Manager of Capital Construction, you’ll play a pivotal role in delivering impactful projects for the City’s Corporate Real Estate Management division. Working within the Project Management Office, you’ll drive project coordination, financial tracking, procurement, and resource planning across diverse and high-impact portfolios, including:

• State of Good Repair and Asset Management Projects
• Affordable Housing, Shelters, and Cultural Infrastructure
• Strategic, Multi-Million-Dollar Capital Projects

You'll be a key force in supporting project teams to boost efficiency, streamline execution, and meet KPIs—ensuring high-quality outcomes and strong team collaboration across complex, city-building initiatives.

Major Responsibilities

• Implements detailed plans and recommends policies and procedures regarding program specific requirements.
• Conducts research into assigned area ensuring that such research considers developments within the field, corporate policies and practices, legislation and initiatives by other levels of government.
• Provides input into and administers assigned budget, ensuring that expenditures are controlled and maintained within approved budget limitations by reviewing quotations, invoices, physical and financial progress of work packages to ensure expenditures align with approved limits.
• Supervises assigned projects, ensuring effective teamwork, communication, high standards of work quality, organizational performance and continuous learning.
• Deals with highly confidential matters such as labour relations, human resources and hiring.
• Participates in the job hiring process, contributing to the production of the practical and oral examination of staff and as a member of the interview panel, when requested.
• Makes recommendations to divisional management to support management functions and improve efficiency and effectiveness of service delivery regarding service optimization and business process simplifications that could result in alternate service delivery, changes in staffing levels, restructuring, and resource allocation.
• Identifies priorities and develops appropriate responses within the Division on issues related to assigned projects and or program implementation.
• Leads and co-ordinates the divisional response for corporate special projects/programs assigned by the Manager, Program Managers, Project Managers, Project Directors in support of the Director.
• Assists in the roll out of change management and training initiatives to support divisional transformation and project delivery process improvements.
• Liaises with divisional budget, contract award, procurement, accounting and administrative staff.
• Represents the division on Divisional and Corporate workgroup and committees.
• Monitors changes to corporate policies and procedures and determines impact on divisional operations.
• Coordinates and maintains ongoing tracking and follow up on project / program directives with program and divisional management teams such as management information dashboards and program/project status reports using various software platforms for reporting.
• Coordinates completion of project and divisional work plans with divisional staff.
• Prepares documents for Divisional Management by conducting research, analysis and scrutiny of all applicable materials.
• Acts as a liaison between the project / program team and other divisions across the City, with respect to project divisional and operational issues in order to establish, maintain and develop communications with other divisions, agencies and boards to ensure effective partnerships within the corporation.
• Attends meetings, prepares agendas and meetings minutes on behalf of the Manager and Project Managers, when requested.
• Coordinates and supports the work of project/program, divisional and corporate initiatives related to the division.
• Organizes project team staff retreats, divisional team meetings, events and various communication material as required.
• Makes presentations to senior divisional staff ensuring information on divisional and corporate initiatives and policies is disseminated/understood.
• Provides direction and composes content for the project/program and division's website (internal/external), working with Communication staff through design and production.
• Communicates regularly with all operating areas of the division to assist with issues affecting the division or program, informs Project Managers, and provides support to the Manager and Project Director on issues that require divisional coordination and policy rollout.
• Recommend service optimizations, support management functions, and coordinate responses for corporate special projects. This includes tracking project/program directives, maintaining dashboards, preparing council staff reports, and creating briefing notes for senior leadership.
• Oversees the development of the project / program Plans.
• Collects, analyzes, evaluates, interprets, and maintains a variety of information/data sets to support project/ program implementation including project / program data related to drawings, budget and costing, procurement using various software platforms (i.e. SharePoint ARIBA, SAP, Excel, etc.) with strong ability to create visual tools such as dashboards, tables, charts and graphs, including standard bar and pie charts, as well as more advanced types to help users analyze, visualize, and share data (IE, Power BI, Tableau).
• Provides program and project management supports to the Manager, Program Manager and Project Managers as required and by organizing interdivisional ...